Freethought and birth control: the untold story of a Victorian book depot
The radical history of 28 Stonecutter Street, London, now buried under the headquarters of Goldman Sachs.
On trial for blasphemy: the Freethinker’s first editor and offensive cartoons
George William Foote was born in Plymouth in humble circumstances on 11 January 1850. His father died when…
Image of the week: Charles Bradlaugh’s study after his death, by Walter Sickert
In the late 1880s, Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was an emerging artist who made money from portrait painting.…
Image of the week: ‘The world is my country, to do good my religion!’
The Truth Seeker was a radical American magazine founded in 1873 by the ex-Shaker and freethinker, DeRobigne Mortimer…